Chapter 2-Battle of Eridani
Endeavour
"Sir were detecting 47 vessels, 3 of which match a signature in our database." A Lieutenant announced
"And it is?" asked Davis
"Aschen sir," a few members of the bridge shifted slightly, they had heard how the Aschen almost unleashed a subtle attack on earth, by offering technology that would secretly cause the humans to lose all fertility, and leave the species dead, and earth in the complete hands of the Aschen.
"Would they recognize our ship?"
"Negative, the first Prometheus was barely under construction at the time of first co…sir their hailing us." The communications officer quickly announced
"On-screen."
The view turned to Gerol on his command deck he seemed taken back by the image of humans, after all the Tollan were non-existent, what other humans had starships? "Greetings to you from the Aschen people, we recommend that you leave the immediate area, this foe would likely consider you a target, and we are unable to protect you."
"I'm Captain James Davis of the RSS Endeavour, from what I can see, you're slaughtering the enemy, and it's their planet, all evidence pointing to the fact that your invading this world, we can't let you continues that without understanding why?"
Gerol nodded in acknowledgement," this people committed a heinous crime against our own, they dared to attack us when we were almost destroyed after our homeworld was devastated, they slaughtered our people, and even took over our protectorate worlds, we cannot let this action go unpunished."
"From what I understand your 'protectorate worlds' are nothing more then farming colonies to feed the Aschen people, after you took over them," Davis said angrily
Gerol raised one eye-brow, "How would you know such a thing, all the worlds we have meet have joi…..your Tau'ri are you not? You are the reason our home world is gone, and for that we shall have our vengeance against your own." The screen fazed out, to reveal the Aschen flagship turning around and firing bursts of energy fire at the Endeavour.
"Well that didn't go well," muttered Wellings, as the ship was rocked by fire
"All fighters launch and engage the frigate-size ships, well handle the big one" Ordered Davis
The 8 F-302's exited through the launch bay, but they were used as anti-fighters support, not to take on frigates that technology that all indications point to being superior in nearly all ways, they were only their to keep them occupied until Endeavour could finish off the Mothership and rid of its little brothers.
Gauss rounds hammered into the Aschen Mothership, slamming against their shield that barely seemed fazed from the attack, and continued firing pulse blasts at the Endeavour, which was dodging the fire as best it could. It fired a broadside off with its port gauss cannons, before its torpedo tubes opened and firing a full salvo of sparrow missiles at the same point. This caused the shields burst open, sensing victory the Endeavour fired a second salvo, only for the shields to quickly regenerate right in front of them.
The fighters were fairing much worse, 2 fighters were destroyed, 1 of which ejected, even with the extra missile payload over the lancers, the interceptors were just that, designed to eliminate fighters and gunboat sized vessels, not ones that were 150 metres long, with technology that was now clearly thought and tested to be superior in almost every aspect to anything Tau'ri. They were hard pressed to do any damage at all to the capital ships, and continued to fire against the shields , several of the alien vessels joined the engagement, and fired several disruptor beams at the ships, doing little to no effect, they could only hope that the Endeavour could finishing dealing with the Mothership soon….